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Outdoor power goes “drive through”
Technician Required – STIHL SHOP Upper Hutt
We are a progressive and growing business, and we seek an experienced technician to expand our team.
Our Upper Hutt workshop currently serves two stores, and we deal with a wide range of domestic and commercial customers.
We offer:
• A tidy and modern working environment
• A good depth of existing experience
• Excellent remuneration and flexible hours
• Opportunities to gain relevant industry qualifications, and
• A great team culture, with regular social events.
Our ideal candidate would possess:
• At least four years relative industry experience
• Industry relevant qualifications
• An excellent attitude, and a demonstrated ability to work as a team, and • A clean drivers licence.
So, if you are keen on a change of scene and a new challenge, we’d love to hear from you.
Please apply by sending your CV, and a
short cover note explaining why the role appeals to: Alastair.thomson@stihlshop.co.nz
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BEING CALLED OUT to reset your business’s alarm is nothing special.
Most of the time it’s a glitch and easily sorted.
You return home, leaving the premises safe and secure.
Most of the time.
However, answering an alarm call at 5.30 in the morning of 14 September,
the proprietors of Rotorua Thompson Lawnmowers & Chainsaws checked the store’s CCTV feed, saw people in the store and immediately called the police.
Soon after, they arrived on-site themselves to find the full array of emergency services already there and dealing with a car that had driven into the store.
Having neatly avoided the anti-collision bollards in front of the Husqvarna dealer, the car remained embedded deep in the store for some time, reports Robyn-ann Rumney, who owns the store with husband Lyall.
Robyn-ann says the couple in the car were on their way to work and, trying to avoid another car that had cut them off, ended up “flying (literally) through the front of the shop.”
The great news is that no one was injured.
The damage to store and stock however was significant and it was some weeks before Thompson Lawnmowers & Chainsaws got a new glass door.
As well as being grateful to emergency services for their super-prompt arrival and to everyone who stopped to help, Robyn-ann also thanks son Michael, who came straight down to the shop and, with Lyall’s help, cut the steel beams away from the car so the tow truck could remove it from the shop!
Finally, thanks also go to the store’s “fantastic staff ” who came in and cleaned up the glass which had “gone for miles!” n
www.thompsonmowers.co.nz